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...lowering of the curtain. That effort requires constant shifts in tone and attitude, from politeness to frenzy, from despair to humor. The characters, drawn together from a series of stock circus and stage types, continually try on roles, haggle over phrases and actions, force each other to react. To pass the time, they stage themselves, singing, arguing, lyricizing-and, in what emerges as the heart of the play, "thinking," the name they give to Lucky's rambling, semi-coherent but all too revealing monologue...
...parity in the student body. Only when numbers of men and women are equal, say the students, will both sexes experience relative content with each other and with their education. The same sentiments are expressed at Harvard, but in such a restrained manner that few hear, much less react, Bok's 2.5:1 ratio plan has diffused student discontent to a point where vocal students only experience futility when they speak...
...week's end Perón's future in Argentina was uncertain. His airport reception had been a disappointment; President Lanusse had flown out of Buenos Aires to lay the cornerstone of a petrochemical plant. No one could guess how he planned to react to el Líder's return. In the next week Perón will meet with representatives of the Justicialismo movement, as well as with those of Argentina's other political parties. Taunted and shunned as he was by Lanusse, Perón seemed to be asking instead of demanding that...
EVEN AT THE AGE of 72, Luis Bunuel does not make movies, surrealistic or not, that are intelligible to all. The difficulty with Bunuel's new film, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, is that it is possible to enjoy it without being certain how to react to it. The first audience one night recently left the movie bemused and unconvinced. A couple admired it, saying "That's wild," then wondered, "What's he doing?" The next audience that evening never stopped laughing. One might well ask, as does one confused character when caught in an uncomfortable situation midway through...
Daniel Ellsherg 52, charged during a speech last night at Tufts University that the Soviet Union and Red China failed to react forcefully to the mining of Haiphong harbor because Henry A. Kissinger 50 had alerted them to the possibility of the mining three years in advance...